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  October 18, 2020 Press Statement Onochie: APC Is Behind Violations, Abuses in Nigeria - PDP...Says Ruling Party Is Plotting To Trigger Crisis The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says the attempt by the All Progressives Congress (APC) to justify President Muhammadu Buhari’s appointment of his aide and frontline APC member, Ms. Lauretta Onochie, as national commissioner of INEC, confirms that the APC is the brain behind the series of constitutional violations, abuse of human rights and impunity bedeviling the nation in the last five years. The PDP said such provocative, arrogant and disdainful display of impunity by the APC and its administration, particularly in the violation of rules and crass abuse of apparatus of power, like the Police, is responsible for the growing tension, remonstration and social restiveness currently threatening our national cohesion. Our party and indeed, Nigerians were shocked that the APC deployed an impostor, as spokesperson, to issue a statement to jus...

  In reply please quote Ref No. CZ.5300/FPRD/FHQ/ABJ/VOL.3/33 Date: 18th October, 2020. The Director of News ……………………………. PRESS RELEASE NPF NEW TACTICAL TEAM COMMENCES TRAINING MONDAY OCT 19 - as Police partner ICRC, others for Qualitative Training The Inspector General of Police, IGP M.A Adamu, NPM, mni has reaffirmed that the new Police Tactical Team will operate within very high professional and ethical standards, rule of law and dictates of best international policing practices. In pursuant of the above objectives, the NPF is partnering with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and other Development Partners for the training of the Tactical Team which commences Monday, 19th October, 2020 at the Police Mobile Force (PMF) Training School, Ila Oragun, Osun State and the PMF Training School, Ende Hills, Nasarawa State. The IGP reiterates that no personnel of the defunct Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) will be a member the new Tactical Team. He notes that the offic...

  President Muhammadu Buhari has described former military Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon as "a gallant patriot whose commitment to national unity is beyond comparison in the annals of our chequered history." In a statement issued in Abuja on Sunday to mark the occasion of his 86th birthday anniversary, President Buhari remarked that "the role General Yakubu Gowon played in our political history and infrastructure development is etched in stone and cannot be rewritten." Buhari said "as young military officers, many of us regarded General Gowon as our role model because of his patriotism, commitment to unity and his humility." According to the President, "the Nigerian civil war brought out the most brilliant qualities of General Gowon as a visionary leader who put the interest of Nigeria before his own personal interest." He noted that "the former Head of State led a very impressive national reconciliation effort at the end of the civil ...

  By C Don Adinuba : 1. Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra State on Oct. 15 held a frank and candid discussion with a large number of Nigerian youths on the state of the nation, with particular attention to the experience of young people at the hands of security agents. 2. The governor noted with dismay reports of inhuman treatment to the youth by the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) of the Nigeria Police Force, and consequently lauded President Muhammadu Buhari for disbanding SARS in accordance with the wishes of Nigerian youths and also for acceding to their four requests for a better police force. 3. To create a more humane social order in Anambra State, Governor Obiano has decided to set up a broad-based panel to look into reports of abuse of human rights by the defunct SARS in the state over the years. Headed by The Hon Justice V. N, Umeh, (retired) the panel will complete its job within 30 days. Members comprise the following: (A) A representative of the Asso...

  President Muhammadu Buhari Saturday took stock of the flood situation in the country and authorized the dispatch of special teams to deliver urgently needed assistance to 12 states most ravaged by the seasonal rains. The states to receive the teams conveying reinforcement of reliefs and other equipment through the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, are: Kebbi, Niger, Kwara, Kogi, Edo, Anambra, Delta, Kano, Jigawa, Rivers, Bayelsa and Adamawa. Some of the states that have been reached with the first wave of support from the Presidency are: Kebbi, Niger, Kwara, Sokoto, Jigawa and Kaduna. President Buhari once again expressed the nation’s sympathy to the victims of the floods, many of whom had lost family members, homes and valued investments in agricultural crops and livestock. The President underscored the need for additional coordination between the federal and state government agencies dealing with the issues, and for improved forecast and warning systems to avert simil...

  Aisha Buhari has called on her husband President Muhammadu Buhari to “save” Nigerians. Mrs. Buhari made the call on Saturday as she tweeted a video of President Buhari in a meeting with service chiefs at the Presidential Villa. Aisha accompanied the video with a Hausa word, #Achechijamaa , which means “save the people”. A Hausa song calling on the President to save the North also played in the background. The song translates as “Please look at our condition. We need your help. The North is crying. There is insincerity. Our blood is being spilled. Our property is being destroyed. Intervene in our situation, baba.” Aisha’s message to the President is coming at a time Nigerian youths are protesting across major cities in the country demanding an end to police brutality and killings.

  Pacific Ring West Africa, a food company based in Abuja, said it will partner with the Nasarawa State Government, to train 1,500 farmers from the state, for the cultivation of cassava which the company uses as raw material. Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the company, Thomas Hirsch, a German, disclosed this while on a courtesy call on Nasarawa State Governor, Engineer Abdullahi Sule, on Wednesday. Hirsch disclosed that his company, in conjunction with the German Embassy’s development agency, the German Industrial Service, will send an expert on tropical agriculture, to train the 1, 500 on modern farm practice and give them the possibility to supply the company as off-takers. He said his company, which is now exporting cassava chips to Europe, choose Nasarawa State because of it’s abundant land resources, availability of sweet cassava, as well as it’s proximity to the Federal Capital Territory. “We want to group the farmers, organize them and them, give them the possibility to su...

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